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A genius to say the least.

(Source: Spotify)

Made another. No life.

How about a nice ROUND-UP?

Here is a quick round-up of what my 23 heroes are currently hard at work on. You may be interested in some of them. I’m excited, of course, for their projects to come to light. It’s what I live for, people!

• Thom Yorke is touring Europe with Atoms For Peace.
• Steve Carell is promoting THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE, out this Friday, and he is filming ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND CONTINUES.
• John Steinbeck, unfortunately, is no longer doing anything.
• Bill Maher is busy hosting and writing for his weekly political program on HBO, Real Time, usually doing stand-up on weekends.
• Sarah Silverman is working on a new comedy web series called Jash.
• David Lynch is currently working on a script for a new feature film that will star Laura Dern.
• Amy Goodman is busy reporting the news five days a week for Democracy Now!.
• Tom Waits is doing god-knows-what, hopefully writing new songs, possibly preparing for Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming animation, PINOCCHIO.
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, too, I’m afraid, is long dead; Walt Disney, William Faulkner, George Carlin, and James Joyce, are no longer with us either.
• Ricky Gervais is working on the new Muppet movie, called THE MUPPETS…AGAIN!, which is set to premiere March 21, 2014, in just over a year.
• Jerry Seinfeld is touring occasionally (I’m seeing him on Friday!) and working on the second series of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which is set to premiere in the next couple months.
• Stephen Colbert is working on the Colbert Report, which he hosts four nights a week.
• Will Ferrell is hard at work filming ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND CONTINUES and will begin work on his new television series The Spoils of Babylon in the coming weeks.
• Rainn Wilson is currently filming the one-hour series finale of The Office, which airs May 16, 2013.
• Christopher Nolan is putting the finishing touches with Zack Snyder on MAN OF STEEL, which he produced and which premieres June 14, 2013. He is likely already at work on his new film, INTERSTELLAR, which just got an official release date of November 7, 2014.
• J. K. Rowling is working with the BBC to bring her latest novel, The Casual Vacancy, to the small screen; she is likely at work on writing a second adult novel.
• George R. R. Martin is very hard at work, among other things, writing his upcoming epic, The Winds of Winter, volume six of his medieval saga A Song of Ice and Fire.
• Kristen Wiig is filming ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND CONTINUES with Carell and Ferrell.
• Paul Thomas Anderson is working on his next film, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, set for release in 2014.

There you have it!

Coolest song this side of the Mississippi.

(Source: Spotify)

Bob Seger covers “Downtown Train,” by Tom Waits. Two of my favorite musicians, those two.

There they are again! In case you didn’t notice, I enjoy making these collages.

Tom Waits appeared on The Simpsons last night. No big deal or anything.

Source: TomWaits.com

Today is Tom Waits’ 63rd birthday. Yesterday his album Bad As Me was nominated for a Grammy, for Best Alternative Album of the Year. I hope he wins, cause god knows he more than deserves it.

The beautiful imagery from Tom Waits’ “Watch Her Disappear,” Alice (2002):

Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you
And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress
Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair
That rose in strangled ebony curls
Moving in a yellow bedroom light
The air is wet with sound
The faraway yelping of a wounded dog
And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak
Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat
A light goes on and the door opens
And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard

A wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air
I hear your champagne laugh
You wear two lavender orchids
One in your hair and one on your hip
A string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk
Circling the lake with a slowly dipping halo
And I hear a banjo tango

And you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree
And I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared

Here is a short clip of an interview with Tom Waits on his character in SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS, which also stars Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Colin Farrell, and several others.

At last, at last! A trailer—and a great one—for Tom Waits’ latest endeavor in film, SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS. May I say this one looks like a classic. What do you get when you put five crazy, old men and two deranged gals together? You get SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS. I hope this movie will be as good as the trailer makes it out to be. I’ll have to see come October.

This is the great, big Tom Waits surprise, and it. is. awesome. It’s a music video for a song on his latest album Bad As Me. The song is called “Hell Broke Luce.”

Tomorrow is the big day. Here’s a third teaser. Its inscription read: “Never Bring A Gun To A Spoonfight.” I really hope he’s been cast in the upcoming fifth PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. We’ll all see tomorrow.